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New industry: Charging to remove cop mug shots from websites
Arthur D'Antonio III is quick to admit he's "not the most proud" of what he does to make a buck.
"At the same time, it is pretty legitimate," the 25-year-old CEO of an online business that -- for $174.99 -- will instantly remove your arrest photo from his website.
Fork over $306.99, and he'll ask Google to yank it from its search results, too.
The site accepts three major credit cards, plus PayPal.
And, no, D'Antonio doesn't lose sleep over it.
"I'd be the first one to be happy if the laws were changed to make it explicitly illegal," he said. "But for the time being -- as long as it is legal -- it's tough not to want to apply my skill set to this."
There's a chance your mug shot is already online if you were booked into the Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake or McHenry County jail in the last couple of years -- even if your arrest didn't make the daily news.
D'Antonio's company is among at least a half-dozen websites now carrying suburban booking photos on a pay-to-remove basis. They rely heavily on access to public records, including arrest reports and mug shots available on government websites.
Critics complain the trending trending business model borders on extortion -- but it's not so clear-cut, say legal experts, who see no legal wrongdoing if the photos and information are lawfully obtained.
"My instinct tells me this was very carefully thought out by some smart lawyers," said Lawrence Schlam, a professor of constitutional law at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb.
'Blood money'
Wheaton defense attorney Sal Miglore started hearing from his clients more than a year ago.
Before long, he had about a dozen complaints.
Some had been found not guilty; others had their charges dismissed or expunged.
But their arrests lived on via the Internet.
To no avail, Miglore said, he tried reaching out to numerous mug shot websites.
"They basically said 'Sue us,'" he recalled. "Eventually, just about every one of my clients paid the blood money. I think it's extortion -- and that's the way the clients view it."
D'Antonio's site, which boasts "upward of 5 or 6 million" searchable images from across the nation, is relatively tame next to some of the spicier offerings making waves around suburban courthouses.
Two sites in particular -- referencing Cook and DuPage counties -- have sparked ire for facilitating salacious online commentary and categorizing featured arrestees as "murderers," "abusive parents," "wife beaters" and "drug dealers," among other terms, even if the charges haven't been proven in court.
Those wrongly labeled who can demonstrate they were harmed as a result have the best shot at winning a defamation claim, Schlam said -- but it can be a lengthy, expensive battle.
"It's (also) a violation of due process to give somebody the reputation of a murderer without them being convicted of murder," he said. "The trickery here is who do you sue and what intent did they have? I'd say pay it (the removal price). It's only a fraction of what my hourly fee would be."
In most cases, and as long as there's documentation, D'Antonio's website removes photos at no charge if a person avoids a conviction or dies.
The Cook and DuPage websites, on the other hand, scrub content only for money.
One of them states online that it "strongly believes in freedom of speech and nothing will ever be censored on our service for any reason. If you don't like freedom of speech, we encourage you to either contact lawmakers and voice your opinion or move to a communist state."
'Changing frontier'
"They've kind of stolen the business of expungements from the government," said Don Ramsell, another Wheaton defense attorney.
Ramsell said one of his clients believed he would be acquitted at trial of resisting arrest but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge because it saved legal costs and time -- and gave him the opportunity for a clean record after a period of good behavior.
The client soon learned his arrest photo would float on in cyber space until he coughed up $50 to $100 for one of three removal packages at the DuPage site, which offers "standard, expedited and platinum" services, depending on how quickly the photo needs to come down.
"If a website is going to portray it just like he was guilty, that certainly might change the frontier of the criminal justice system," Ramsell said.
Local police agencies say there's little they can do when they're asked for booking photos, which by law must be made publicly available in most circumstances.
The McHenry County sheriff's office received regular requests from websites in and out of state but now puts its arrest photos online, according to Cmdr. Duane Cedergren.
"Once we release a public record, we have no control over what somebody does with it," he said, adding the office does not support mug shot removal sites "in any way, shape or form."
In Kane County, Sheriff's Lt. Pat Gengler has also filled requests for all mug shots taken over various periods of time, as well as booking information, such as dates of birth and addresses.
The same information is available on the sheriff's website, which includes sections for people booked or released in the prior 24 hours.
"It's getting more prevalent," Gengler said of mug shot sites. "We really don't have an opinion on it. They ask for the information under the Freedom of Information Act, and we reply to that just like we would any other FOIA."
But not all cops are playing along.
"A number of mug shot selling companies have attempted to request mug shots for everyone in the Cook County jail," which houses more than 10,000 inmates, spokesman Frank Bilecki said. "We have never complied with these requests."
Bilecki said the jail's website posts photos of inmates "for safety and identification purposes" but only while the person is in custody.
"The only way for anyone to access those photos is by entering the detainee's name for a search," he said, though the agency still provides individual booking photos on request to the local news media.
The DuPage County sheriff's office did not respond to requests for comment.
'Largely spite'
Ironically, D'Antonio didn't see dollars in mug shots until his buddy's photo ended up on another site.
It was frustrating to see his friend pay to save face, the web designer said, but it also led to a realization.
"I thought, 'I could build this in 80 hours. It was largely spite, but it was also a little bit of wanting to play with some new technologies and wanting to have a side project," D'Antonio said. "I was pretty sure it wasn't a legal thing to be doing. The more I read into it, the more it made sense."
Based in Orange County, Calif., D'Antonio's company has five full-time employees. The bulk of its revenue comes from removal services, D'Antonio said. He wouldn't disclose how much traffic the site gets, but said it "just kept coming up, coming up" after launching about a year ago.
D'Antonio said he occasionally breaks his own rules -- taking down a photo for free here and there if it's related to a minor arrest and costing someone a job.
Sometimes, he said, he refuses business from convicted child and domestic abusers, or parents delinquent in child support because it would be a "disservice to the public."
Most of his customers are paying to remove alcohol- and drug-related arrests, D'Antonio said. He wouldn't talk numbers.
"We absolutely aren't out to destroy people's lives," he said. "Our goal is to find a middle ground where we can be a service to the public without being a huge detraction for people out there looking for a job and things like that."
For D'Antonio, an entrepreneur of web startup companies, public information offers a vast frontier for online commerce.
Lately, he's been investigating potential uses for license plate data collected by electronic readers on police patrol cars and bridges in some states.
If that information is public, he said, users could pinpoint a vehicle at a particular place and time, which could be valuable and have many different applications.
"I bet there are companies that would be interested to see if any cars are driving by trying to hack into their Internet," D'Antonio said.
D'Antonio declined to share a photo of himself for this story, "primarily for reasons of safety for both myself and for the safety of my friends and family."
Asked if he had a criminal record, he said he was arrested at age 20 for an alcohol-related offense in a "county that at the time didn't have any robust reporting."
He wouldn't give further specifics but said he's confident his mug shot would be tough to track down.
"I haven't had to pay for removal or anything," he said. "Knock on wood."


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There are two narratives of how Dina, a gang member in the northern village of Matsaborilava, Madagascar, died last August. Police suspected the 33-year-old was partly responsible for the death of a cocoa plantation's security guard earlier in the year. When they went to his house, officers claimed he lunged at them with a machete and that they shot him dead in self-defense. Dina's wife, the mother of his two children, tells it differently: After officers barged into their home at night and asked three times "Are you Dina?," to which he replied yes, they handcuffed him and then shot him twice in the head.
Giulio Di Sturco, an Italian photojournalist based in Bangkok and New Delhi, arrived the next day, five months after his first assignment documenting the cocoa battle between farmers and gangs. Dina's death marked the first in the local police's new operation against the bandits. Having kept in touch with an official in northern Ambanja through his fixer, Di Sturco arranged a three-week trip to see it all: the plantations on which farmers earn their living and from which gangs steal; the ill-equipped police; the middlemen who actually turn a profit; and the families who never asked to be involved in the mayhem.
Cacao trees in the remote Sambirano Valley yield some of the world's finest cocoa pods, a favorite among chocolatiers in the West, and should be a boon for farmers. But a coup five years ago prompted a repeal of external funding, which had accounted for 40 percent of the state's budget, pushing poverty higher and causing investments to dry up. For a country where some 92 percent of its 22 million people live on less than $2 per day, making it one of the poorest in the world, cocoa banditry can be an attractive option.
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Di Sturco spent most days with the farmers and nights with the police. His honesty with the gangs resulted in access he had only dreamed of during his first trip. "They said, 'We'll speak with you, we'll let you take pictures,'" he recalls, "but they said, 'we trust you not to go with the police.'" In response, Di Sturco told the gang members that if they killed somebody, he was going to take pictures of the funeral. "And they were kind of okay with that."
Before he could photograph Dina's funeral, he had to wait in his hotel for access. The formal tradition is that a member of the deceased's family comes to talk, over a pot of tea, and then makes a decision. Once Di Sturco told the family how police recalled Dina's death, a version that differed from theirs, they agreed to let him document the funeral. Dina's coffin was paraded around Matsaborilava so everyone could see he was killed by the police, but Di Sturco says they weren't told why. Two policemen showed up, one of them the commissioner, whose apology to the mother of Dina's wife was viewed as sincere.
Di Sturco is finishing a long project in India and Bangladesh about the Ganges River but says he will return to Madagascar if there's a big development in this story. He plans later this year to photograph at a chocolate fair in Paris, where there will be many beans from Madagascar. Those images will give him the whole project, from bean to bar and everything in between. Di Sturco admits this work isn't about getting people to change their opinions or habits: People won't stop eating chocolate just because others are killing each other over it. Rather, it's about informing them about the consequences of their cravings.
"Everybody knows that cocoa in Madagascar is good," he says, "but nobody knows the war."
Giulio Di Sturco is a photographer with Reportage by Getty Images. His work has appeared in TIME, Geo magazine, Vanity Fair, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine and many others.
Andrew Katz is a homepage editor at TIME and reporter covering international affairs. Follow him on Twitter @katz.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth chalked up his first shutout in nearly two seasons as having more to do with skill than good fortune.
In stopping 29 shots in a 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, Enroth brushed aside a question regarding Danny Briere's shot that deflected off the crossbar with 1 second remaining.
"I'm going to stick with good," Enroth said, with a wink. "I think we worked really hard. Everyone was better out there, so I think we deserved the luck."
Buffalo not only got a break on Briere's shot which banked wide as the final horn sounded, but also on its only goal.
Christian Ehrhoff scored 17 seconds into the third period after a faceoff to the left of the Flyers net.
Given the puck at the point, Ehrhoff's shot sailed five feet wide of the net, caromed off the end boards and banked in off the back of Flyers goalie Steve Mason's skate.
"Fortunate bounce for me, and it was the only goal in the game so happy with it," Ehrhoff said. "Sometimes it just happens that way. Not really that surprised."
The Sabres (17-19-6) ended a two-game skid to stay on the fringes of the playoff race by moving into a tie for 10th with New Jersey in the Eastern Conference.
The Flyers (17-21-3) slipped further out of contention in losing their fourth straight — a stretch in which they've combined for just three goals.
"Yeah, it's the way things are going these days around here," Briere said, of his shot from the left circle that went off the crossbar. "All the offense that we have up front, it's been frustrating in that regard. I wish I had an easy answer."
Briere was playing his first game after missing 10 with a concussion.
And he couldn't provide a spark to a team that's lost four straight in regulation for the first time since a fourth-game skid from Feb. 26-March 6, 2011.
As for its offensive struggles, Philadelphia's failure to score two or more goals in regulation over four games is the team's worst stretch since a four-game span from Jan. 24-30, 2003, according to STATS LLC.
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
CDs that should be in every medicine cabinet
Being rather ill has been a strange experience. Beethoven Quartets and Schubert Masses are meant to figure prominently in the listening of those who have wobbled slightly on the perch. But not in mine; instead I have been relishing the healing power of a composer whose music does not usually feature in my playlists or On An Overgrown Path.
Antonín Dvořák's reputation as a symphonist is both enhanced and distorted by the popular success of his ninth essay in the medium, the New World Symphony. The other late symphonies, Nos 7 and 8, appear occasionally in the concert hall and No 5 turns up once in a blue moon. Which completely ignores five other symphonies, works that are genuinely, to use an overworked and much abused term, life-affirming.
Clear first choice for a survey of the complete Dvořák symphonies is István Kertész with the London Symphony Orchestra on Decca. Another reviewer has remarked how their "orchestral sound pulses with life", and that sums up this definitive set perfectly. István Kertész was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest in 1923 and many of his extended family died in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He survived the war and after completing his musical studies quickly built a reputation conducting leading ensembles including the Cologne Opera, and Berlin and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras.
Kertész, seen below, was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1968 and his classic accounts of the Dvořák Symphonies date from the period 1963 to 1968 when the orchestra was at the top of its game. Tragically, Kertész died in a drowning accident in the Mediterranean off the coast of Israel in 1973. (In a chilling example of concatenation I had been swimming alone in a remote and inaccessible Mediterranean cove just hours before I was rushed into a French hospital in May. Memo to self, avoid sea interludes).
Due to his dreadfully early death Kertész's recorded legacy is small but quite remarkable. Do not be put off buying his Dvořák because it was recorded in the 1960s. In fact the opposite applies, you should buy it because of the recording date. All the recordings were made in the much lamented Kingsway Hall by legendary Decca producer Ray Minshull, and they serve as an eloquent reminder that all that is digital is not gold. There is a sense of spontaneity, including occasional quite excusable small lapses of ensemble and intonation, that makes them sound like concert performances. But above all there is a sonic impact and clarity of stereo image that puts them up there with other great recordings of all time, including the iconic Mercury recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra that date from the same period.
Ray Minshull provides the excellent sleeve notes for the Decca set and in them tells how the Dvořák cycle started when plans for Kertész to record Elgar's First Symphony were dropped at the last moment - oh, how I wish we had the Dvořák and his Elgar. But, thankfully, we do have the Dvořák set which does such a valuable service in making the little known early symphonies available. The Decca box of six CDs, which includes the nine symphonies plus overtures and tone poems, can currently be bought for less than £20. Need I say more?
In the string quartet literature, the merit of Dvořák's little known late quartets mirrors that of his early symphonies. His Quartet No 12 'American' is perhaps too well known. But what of Nos 10, 11, 13 and 14? All are quite wonderful healing music awaiting discovery; for starters try the Panocha Quartets' recently re-released mid-price 3 CD digipak. And while on the path of healing music Naxos' 5 CD box of Dvořák's complete solo piano music, see footer image, should be in every medicine chest. There is more on classical music and the feel good factor here.
With thanks to musical healer and therapist Lyle Sanford whose recent post on his own blog sparked this article. I am sorry Lyle, but I ran out of space before I really got to grips with my intended subject of the healing power of music. But I promise there will be a second part to this post. All featured CDs were bought at retail. Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk Also on Facebook and Twitter.
7 comments:
- Pliable said...
David Cavlovic commented via Facebook:
'The Dvorak Symphony set is definitely in my medicine cabinet. In fact, by the powers invested in me, through the auspicies of the Peroxided Order of the Sisters of St. Andrew (yes, the famous St. Andrews' Sisters), I have pronounced this set a Desert Island Disc.'
- 12:59 pm
- Lyle Sanford, RMT said...
Pliable - That connection you make via lineage is terrific (other than the fact it made me feel a little thick headed it had never occurred to me before ;-)
Your use of the word "mystical" has opened a path for me as well. The English major in me went to the Oxford dictionary to check etymology and it goes back to the Greek for "initiated person". And that surely goes back to the pre-Christian mystery cults.
The question is whether or not one needs lots of preliminary experience in a particular genre, i.e. to be an initiate, to enable a transcendent experience when listening to that music.
At any rate, eagerly await part two of this post.
- 2:00 pm
- Gavin Plumley said...
The final movement of the 6th is a life-affirming burst of sunshine... like Brandenburg 3 or the Trepak from The Nutcracker (G major anyone)? Thank you for this post.
- 2:16 pm
- Pliable said...
Gavin, more concatenation - I was listening to the 6th Symphony last night and can only echo what you say about the final movement.
Thank you.
- 2:23 pm
- Pliable said...
In connection with Lyle's comment above, István Kertész is an interesting case study in lineage - János Ferencsik, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer et al. And the influences on Dvořák included Smetana and Brahms.
- 2:49 pm
- Civic Center said...
Lovely to hear that it is Dvorak that's healing you. Try to get your strength back slowly. Glad you're listening to the Norns here: No More Scary Sea Interludes for Monsieur Pliable. You've been warned.
- 7:15 am
- Peter Young said...
They are wonderful recordings, the whole lot of them (and I've still got the vinyl). When I first heard them I thought the 6th symphony was the great masterpiece of all - and sometimes I still think that's right!
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Jason Garrison figures he couldn't have picked a better time for his worst injury.
The National Hockey League defenceman, who joined the Vancouver Canucks in July on a six-year, $27.6-million free-agent contract, began skating with out-of-work teammates Tuesday at the University of B.C. after spending the first three months of the lockout rehabilitating a groin/abdominal injury.
Garrison revealed he has had similar injuries before, but not to the extent that he missed more than a few games.
Ironically, the player Garrison essentially replaces, departed free agent Sami Salo, had chronic groin problems and many other injuries during his time with the Canucks.
"There were things torn up there," Garrison, 28, said after skating with a handful of teammates and players from the UBC Thunderbirds. "Previous to the summer, there was talk (about surgery) but this was something that doctors told me wouldn't take too long to heal: 'Just give it some time and it will go away' kind of thing. But that wasn't the case.
"It's slightly different than a recurring thing for me. I've had issues the last few seasons, but haven't missed many games because of them. I was able to play through (injury). This was just a little bit different. Kind of a different area and, obviously, it took a little more time."
Garrison said in September that he thought he'd be able to play if the NHL season started on time on Oct. 11. But owners locked out players on Sept. 15, and Garrison spent three months receiving treatment — and paycheques — from the Canucks.
"I think any guy would rather be healthy," he said. "Everyone wants to be playing. The situation was frustrating. I've had injuries over my career, but nothing that's taken this long. The progress was very slow and it took a lot of time and focus."
Garrison, who is from White Rock and played junior hockey in Nanaimo, has been in the NHL only 2½ seasons after going undrafted and developing his game in the minors. His 33 points in 77 games for the Florida Panthers last season included 16 goals. He was projected to be on the Canuck power play and log top-four minutes.
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Mark is super protective of the car, as he's entitled to be, and he and the team have done a great job putting it together. But wouldn't you know it? He let me drive and, as I'm pulling off Interstate 81 in Cortland NY, we get rear-ended. No — for real. I pull over, Mark jumps out, and I'm checking the side mirror to open the door safely in traffic but I'm mortified. Turns out that the Porsche's rear valance is strong like a bull, and we emerge with just a series of scuff marks.
We drove through Binghamton, Scranton, and Poconos to get to the city. Traffic got faster and denser as we entered New Jersey, but Mark, to my surprise, let me drive again! We arrived at the hotel and handed the car off to a professional detailer before it was parked on site.
After setting up the car, we were ready. Soon we were joined by press, analysts, and AT&T partners and executives who all came out to see an important part of the car's story — the use of AT&T's WATSON speech engine. The Porsche is a great way to illustrate how helpful WATSON can be in an environment like the car.
Derek (seated in the car) with Mazin Gilbert of AT&T and Jordan Crook of TechCrunch.
The event was a big success and featured a presentation from Krish Prabhu, president and CEO of AT&T Labs Research; it also included demonstrations from AT&T Labs and AT&T Foundry. The demos included a smart door that recognizes you before you reach for your keys, and a smartphone application that performs language translations in real time.
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Located close to Harmony Garden, this peaceful cottage lives up to its name. The views look out over Melrose Abbey, a majestic 14th century ruin, and the Eildon Hills.
Inside, original features include flagstone flooring, wooden panelling and original fireplaces in all rooms. As well as its own small paved garden, plant-lovers' paradise Harmony Garden is only a short walk away.
Harmony can also be used for events such as wedding receptions. Additional activities must be agreed in advance with the Property Manager and will incur an additional chage.
Accommodation details
- 2 storey
- Sleeps 4 - 2 twin bedrooms
- Sitting room
- Kitchen
- Bathroom with bath and hand-held shower attachment (first floor)
- Gas central heating
- On street and pay & display parking nearby
- Free parking in the winter season and evenings
- Public transport accessible
- EPC Rating: D56
Additional accommodation can be booked at Harmony, which sleeps 12. Harmony is less than a 5-minute walk from Harmony Cottage.
About Harmony Garden
Harmony Garden is a tranquil walled garden comprising lawns, herbaceous and mixed borders, vegetable and fruit, and a rich display of spring bulbs. The garden's texture, fragrance and colour change throughout the year making it a place to return to again and again. The grounds are set around an early 19th-century house (available as holiday accommodation), built by a Melrose joiner, who named it after the Jamaican pimento plantation where he made his fortune.
About the area
Melrose's history dates back to the Bronze Age. There is still a scattering of brochs in the countryside around the town, possibly a legacy of the Romans for managing the rich sheep grazing on the moors.
The town has a good selection of shops including those selling knitwear, tweeds, books and antiques. There is also a variety of restaurants serving classic Scottish fare in cosy surroundings.
In June, Harmony Garden plays host to the annual Borders Book Festival, whose past attendees include Ian Rankin and Sir David Frost.
Things to do
- A trip to Melrose isn't complete without a wander round the Abbey. Although portions of the 12th century structure survive, the magnificent rose-stone building dates from the 1385 rebuilding. Look out for the chapter house, where Robert the Bruce's heart is said to be buried, or the statue of Scottish medieval wizard, Michael Scott.
- Visit nearby rustic Priorwood Garden to learn about the craft of dried flower work; pick your own blooms to order and take home.
- Walk part of the St Cuthbert's Way, following in the footsteps of the eponymous saint. The whole route takes four days and leads across the mudflats to Lindisfarne. The Melrose to St Boswell's section is 7.5 miles each way. (stcuthbertsway.info)
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Melrose lies off the A6091. Harmony Garden is opposite the Abbey. First Bus operates a route from Edinburgh and Peebles.
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Lately, I've been feeling a sense of inhibition relating to Josephine Bosma's book Nettitudes, which I've had checked out from the library for the past six months. I started getting emails a few weeks ago that the book had to be returned, each one charting a steadily increasing overdue fine. (Update: the book is now being billed as lost.) The idea of returning the book became a source of anxiety, because even though I could make a copy or buy another one, I've become attached to it. Also, I don't quite remember where I put it.
This is relevant to my job because the Prix Net Art announcement, which went up earlier this week, had to of course include a definition of net art. And as with last year, this definition was something Chronus and TASML curator and Prix instigator and co-organizer Zhang Ga and I discussed intently. As Zhang has argued from the beginning, one signficant motivation for this prize was to publicly discuss and debate the definition of net art.


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Logic facts for kids(Redirected from Logician)
Logic is the science of reasoning. Logic helps people decide whether something is true or false.
A popular example of a syllogism given by Aristotle:
- All men are mortal
- Socrates is a man
- Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
Symbolic logic
The same syllogism can be written in a notation:
is read like "and", meaning both of the two. is read like "or", meaning at least one of the two. is read like "implies", or "If ... then ...". is read like "not", or "it is not the case that ...". Parentheses (,) are added for clarity and precedence; this means that what is in parenthesis should be looked at before the things outside.
This is the same example using logic symbols:
And this is the same example using general terms:
Finally, those talking about logic talk about statements. A statement is simply something like "Aristole is human" or "all humans are mortal". Statements have a truth value; they are either true or false, but not both. Mistakes in logic are called "fallacies".
Logical proof
A logical proof is a list of statements. Each statement in the proof is either an assumption or has been proven to follow from earlier statements in the proof. A proof shows that one statement, the conclusion, follows from the assumptions. One can, for example, prove that "Aristotle is mortal" follows from "Aristotle is a man" and "All men are mortal".
There are statements that are always true.
is always true. It is called a tautology. (for example: "Either it rains, or it does not rain")
Logic is used by computers in what is called an algorithm. An algorithm is sort of like a cooking recipe; it tells the computer what to do and when to do it.
Logic is used in mathematics. People who study math create proofs that use logic to show that math facts are correct. There is an area of mathematics called mathematical logic that studies logic using mathematics.
Logic is also studied in philosophy.
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Sir Bruce Forsyth has revealed that telling Tess Daly about his Strictly Come Dancing exit was like breaking up with a girlfriend.
The TV host, who is quitting from the "rigours" of fronting the live shows of the BBC dancing programme after 10 years and 11 series, admitted giving his co-presenter the news was "like a boyfriend breaking up with his girl".
In an interview with BBC News, the 86-year-old added: "She was in tears and started me off a bit."
Bruce said making the decision to step down was emotional.
"It's sad, I've loved doing it. I've always said that, at the end of last series I was getting that feeling, 'Is this the time?'," he revealed.
"I've just been on my three-month break in the Caribbean, I've been thinking about it all the time," he continued, adding: "[Live television] takes its toll when you've been doing it for many years, it's a pressure thing."
Bruce will continue to host the Strictly Christmas specials, Children In Need episode and other one-offs. He also insisted he is not retiring.
"I'm not retiring," he said. "That's the last thing in the world I want to do. This isn't Brucie walking into the sunset."
Tess led the goodbye messages to Bruce after he announced his departure on April 4.
She said: "It's been an absolute pleasure and a privilege working alongside Bruce for the last decade. He's a TV legend, a total gentleman and someone my family and I are honoured to call a true friend.
"We've spoken about it, and he knows how much I love him and how much he'll be missed - but he's not going to escape me that easily, as we'll be keeping him dancing when we're reunited for the Children in Need and Christmas specials."


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"I love this book because it is so honest."
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"A beautiful, heartbreaking memoir of love and loss."
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Leslie Brody, a newspaper reporter and mother of two, thought her life was finally heading in the right direction when she married Elliot Pinsley, a romantic, funny and brilliant editor with three kids of his own. But six years after their wedding, they learned that Elliot, only 55, had pancreatic cancer - and would be lucky to live for a year or two.
With a journalist's eye for intimate detail, Leslie shows how they made the very most of the time they had left together. Told with heart, humor and compelling immediacy, The Last Kiss is a love story about the life-affirming power of a passionate marriage, the importance of loyal friends, and the resilience of children growing up through one of life's harshest trials.
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Hey guys,
Im new to this forum and I really never thought my schooling would be this bad to find help from an online community..but heres the deal:
Im a masters student in MIS and I needed this java programming course for my degree. I figured it would be pretty easy except my professor doesnt teach us anything. I have been trying to learn on my own through the book and youtube videos and colleagues, which it was going pretty well for a little while. However, my professor gives us really hard programs to do and no one in the class knows how to solve them, not even the guy who writes 2 other languages. So I desperately need help cuz I have no idea what I'm doing. Here's the problem he gave us:::
A parking garage charges a $2 minimum fee to park for up to 3 hours. The garage charges and additional .50 cents per hour or part thereof, in excess of three hours. The max charge for any 24 hour period is $10. Assume that no car parks for longer than 24 hours at a time. Writ a java app which will calculate and display the parking charges for each customer who parked in the garage yesterday. You should wnter the hours parked for each customer. The program should display the charge for the current customer and should calculate and display the running total of yesterday's receipts.
The program should have at least 3 methods:
1. Enter and return the hours parked by a customer
2. Calculate and return the charge given it was sent to the hours parked
3. Send the charge for each customer and the running total thus far and prints them
The output should look somethng like this:::
Enter hours this customer parked: 2.5
The charge for this customer is $2.00
The total for the day is $2.00
Enter hours this customer parked: 5
The charge for this customer is $3.00
The total for the day is $5.00
and so on....
Its supposed to be a program for multiple methods but I did multiple classes bc its the only way I know how to do it. Here is what I have so far...
My main method:::
import java.util.Scanner; class Prog_4{ public static void main(String[] args){ Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); hours hoursObject = new hours(); System.out.println("Enter the number of hours parked: "); double temp = input.nextDouble(); hoursObject.setHours(temp); hoursObject.summary(); charge chargeObject = new charge(); double cost = input.nextDouble(); chargeObject.setCharge(cost); chargeObject.rateSummary();
My hours class:::
public class hours{ public double numberOfHours; public void setHours(double hours){ numberOfHours = hours; } public double getHours(){ return numberOfHours; } public void summary(){ System.out.printf("The number of hours parked was %s", getHours()); } }
MY charge class:::
public class charge{ public double rate; public void setCharge(double charge, double hours){ if(hours<=3.0){ (charge= "$2.00"); } else if(hours<= 4.0){ (charge= "$2.50") } else if(hours<=5.0){ } } } } public double getCharge(){ return rate; } public void rateSummary(){ System.out.printf("The charge for this customer is %s", getCharge());
I'd greatly appreciate any help at all. Even if you could just dumb it down for me and get me in the right direction.
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Laurels for the Haven
The Board of Architectural Review will decide at its next meeting, Tuesday, April 17, whether a new hedge of laurel at the Haven, the downtown day shelter, can remain.
(An early online version of this sentence misidentified the type of laurel. A sharp-eyed reader indicates that these are Otto Luyken laurels.)Read more on: The Haven day shelter
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A good, drought-tolerent shrub.
Why would this even be an issue for review. What's the problem ?
That is not Mountain Laurel.
The plants you show are "Otto Luyken" laurels (Prunus laurocerasus) -- a variety of English laurel -- not mountain laurels (Kalmia latifolia).Mountain laurels could never survive such a situation.
Shrubbery should be reviewed, in my opinion, just the same as wall textures, colors, and proportions of any elements.
Ant., they might be Pr. Lauro. Otto L., but there's no way to know. Most nurseries and garden centers, especially Meadows Farms-types, sell their Cherry Laurels as Otto L's, knowing that they are not. Often sold with complimentary root weevils and bagworm.
It's possible, I suppose, that the plants in the picture are Prunus laurus Schipkaensis -- a sort of cherry laurel that most people (both pros and amateurs) seem to shorten to "Skip laurels" these days. But I don't think so because those have lighter green leaves and a more vertical habit than Otto Luykens. And neither remotely resembles Kalmia latifolia, the native mountain laurel.
As for vendors selling and "installing" (a more appropriate word than planting when you watch it done) inferior and/or compromised (infested, infected, root-bound, ad inf.) plants, entirely too many do that. But that problem can be avoided if buyers just look as closely at the plants as they do at the prices.
So the architectual review board will decide whether the shrubs are in tune with Mr Jeffersons vision of what a homeless shelter would have looked like in 1800?
I guess they are bored with Trader Joes and want to harrass non profits now.
how about fixing the BELMONT BRIDGE?
This will be a welcome addition to downtown, hopefully these shrubs will grow quickly in an effort to spare me the view of Charlottesville's elite which congregate in that area.
Your poor eyes.
This is quite comical. The ARB is spending time dealing with shrubs outside the 21st Century's version of an asylum, a city councilor is spending time dealing with historical statues, and the mayor was spending time courting bums in Lee Park all last fall. In the meantime, the city manager cries poor mouth, people are leaving the city to move to the county, and an increasing drug problem pervades our town.
This is classic liberalism for all to see...it has predictable outcomes:
1. Taxpaying, productive citizens move out to be around other taxpaying, productive citizens.
2. The cost of babysitting nonproductive citizens begins to empty city coffers.
3. Councilors attempt other tax schemes.
4. They do not work, so businesses start getting hit with higher taxes.
5. More productive entities move out.
6. More shortfalls...and more crafty tax schemes: more meal taxes, etc. Libs still don't get it: for discretionary products, when you increase prices (i.e., taxes), demand falls. You do not get the revenue increase.
7. City goes bankrupt: crime increases, unemployment spikes, etc.
Philly, Detroit, DC, St. Louis...the grand Johnsonian experiment is a 50 year failure. Can't wait to see that new complex completed at 29 and Hydraulic (on the county side!).
R.I.P.: Dick Dilworth
"Libs still don't get it: for discretionary products, when you increase prices (i.e., taxes), demand falls. You do not get the revenue increase."
I don't think you get. By this logic, all businesses should charge $0 for their products, in order to maximize demand. If they were to charge anything higher than nothing, the demand would certainly fall and "you do not get the revenue increase."
However, the fact that most businesses charge for their products tells me that they are willing to see a drop in demand in order to capture some of the benefits of providing the service. That way, they get to stay in business.
That (New Reality) is one of the most idiotic things I have ever read.
All brought to you by your friendly neighborhood politicians. I've always wondered how many politicians have off shore bank accounts?
One more time, Ant., these shrubs MIGHT BE P. laurocerasus Schipkaensis, but there's no way anyone, not the world's Prunus authority or even me, could possibly identify the variety of these cherry laurels from that photo,...or any photo of this specimen.
And for the rest of you clowns, I expect you have nice gardens of Nandina and "Southern" magnolia surrounding your red clay brick homes.
Are the kind folks over at the ARB paid for wasting time and tax dollars? This is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen in a good long time.
"So the architectual review board will decide whether the shrubs are in tune with Mr Jeffersons vision of what a homeless shelter would have looked like in 1800?"
Go Bill! Ain't it the truth?
New Reality...what? A business does not want to maximize demand, they want to maximize profit. It does me know good if 1,000 people come into my store for 1 cent ice cream cones if it costs me 5 cents per cone, right?
While one might not consider the "products" (services) provided by the city as discretionary, the outflux of people who can afford to move out of cities doing so suggests that there is some elasticity in price. The city raises the cost of these things, people leave, demand falls. Then the only consumers left are those for whom these services are not discretionary; i.e., those loads sitting outside Le Haven. Now, where do we get the money for them?
@ Liberalace...LOVE that logic! Sweet!
Glad, liberalace, that you understand the need for a business to make a profit. That's a start, and we can work on government from there. It's really very similar.
You say "the city raises the cost of these things, people leave, demand falls." Well sure, just like when I raise the cost of my ice cream. But the city also needs to generate enough revenue to cover the costs of its services, so they want to set the tax rate such that the marginal utility of an increase would not be outweighed by any loss in tax base. In other words, there's a sweet spot.
It's simply not true that any increase in tax will result in a loss of revenue. No credible economist would suggest this, just like no businessperson would say that any increase in the price of my ice cream will reduce my profit margin. It's a silly thing to say.


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One of my biggest, deepest-darkest secrets is that a few times a year, I buy a frozen pizza. I used to do it on the sly, but lately I've even got so brazen that I'll go out and do it in broad daylight. I am sure after my goings on about the popularity of frozen foods in France that I was going to get busted one day standing in line, clutching an icy box containing a pizza jambon speck, roquette, mozarella at the frozen foods store. Yet so far I've escaped detection.
But it's not the fin du monde and everyone has the right to enjoy a frozen pizza once in a while, right? I used to make homemade pizza a lot more when I lived in California since it's a simple thing to make, and you can turn out a couple at a time and eat the leftovers later. They reheat so nicely but for those of us who are impatient, it's nice to know that cold pizza makes a great breakfast, too.
(And we used to take home leftover pizza dough at the end of the night when I worked in the restaurant, so it was especially easy to roll 'n bake a pizza on your day off.)
I just got a copy of Serve Yourself by Joe Yonan, a nifty book full of recipes for cooking for one. Joe came to Paris a few years ago and like everyone who meets him, I was charmed off my pieds by his graceful intelligence and instant friendliness, and we ended up sharing a couple of meals together.


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New measures are being implemented in the US to tackle rape and sexual assault in prison. But in Alabama, one women's prison has gained a notorious reputation for being unsafe.
Tutwiler prison stands next to US Highway 231, in the town of Wetumpka. Behind the barbed wire is a series of stone-coloured single-storey buildings.
This is Alabama's maximum security facility for women - a place where stories of rape and sexual assault are legion.
On a Sunday morning, Robert Chancey joins a queue of relatives waiting to visit the inmates. He has come to see Monica Washington, his cousin. Toddling along beside Robert, is Monica's little girl - growing tall and strong while her mother serves 20 years for robbery.
Away from the prison, Robert explains how Monica got pregnant. "She was raped in prison. She had the baby by one of the guards."
Robert learned about the attack during a prison visit when Monica was already two months pregnant.
"The guard told her when he took her in the room what he wanted to do to her and she said 'No'. He told her: 'Who do you think they're going to believe - you or me?' So she proceeded just to do what he wanted her to do."
Robert says his cousin was too frightened to report the rape, but prison gossip meant she could not hide the pregnancy - or how it happened - for long.
A Montgomery-based NGO, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), investigated events at Tutwiler. Charlotte Morrison - an EJI lawyer representing Washington - says there are other cases involving the prison's staff.
"We know of numerous pregnancies, including three since 2009. We interviewed over 50 women at Tutwiler - what we found was really disturbing.
"Every single woman we interviewed had been either sexually assaulted, sexually harassed or had witnessed another female inmate being sexually harassed or sexually assaulted."
But this is not about one institution in one southern state. The United States is the most incarcerated nation on earth - more than two million inmates are behind bars in federal and state prisons, and local jails.
A recent survey by the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated 9.6% of former inmates at state prisons across the US reported one or more incidents of sexual victimisation during their most recent period of incarceration. About 5.4% of former state prisoners reported an incident involving another inmate, and 5.3% reported an incident involving staff.
The US Congress has taken action, and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) came into force last August. It sets out how prisons and jails should investigate and respond to complaints, how inmates should be able to report abuse, and recommends prisoners be guarded by same-sex staff where possible.
The Alabama Department of Corrections says it is working towards compliance with the PREA standards, but would not allow the BBC to visit any of its facilities.
At Florida's Turner Guilford Knight correctional facility, one of five jails run by the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, many of the PREA recommendations are being implemented. Staff are trained by Just Detention International (JDI) - an American NGO which has campaigned on prison rape for decades.
On arrival at a Miami-Dade jail, prisoners are advised on how they can keep safe and they have access to a 24-hour hotline. Calls go through to a local rape treatment centre and to Mujer, an NGO where the phone is answered by Ana Obregon.
"In October I had about 18 calls," she says. "The majority are from individuals or by friends of individuals who are identifying as gay - all of them have been men. There's a lot of unwanted touching going on. I have had two who have reported rape."
Campaigners believe that being able to report an assault to an outside organisation - like Mujer - is critical. But the prison context is complex, and the reporting system is open to abuse.
"Since the beginning of this year we have yet to experience an alleged assault we've been able to substantiate," says Marydell Guevara, assistant director of Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department.
"Prisoners may gamble with chips and candy bars. Let's say I was on the losing end, and I owe you five candy bars. Well, I'm going to get on the rape hotline and say: 'My cellmate Jo has sexually assaulted me.'
"They know what our protocol is - we come in, do a full investigation and in the interim, we separate them. So sometimes prisoners use it as a tactic to get someone moved out of their cell."
But this does not invalidate the system, she says. "I'd rather have 100 false reports than have one real one that we miss."
The new PREA standards are already legally binding for America's federal prisons - state facilities have another year to comply. But for local jails - like Calhoun County, back in Alabama - the situation is less clear-cut.
Larry Amerson believes local sheriffs like him already look out for inmates' safety, and he does not believe the statistics.
"I think they are greatly over-stated," he says. "Do sexual assaults happen? Yes. Are some inmates in particular at risk? Yes. But in 37 years doing this job, I'd be surprised if it was 2% - unwilling participation.
"There is willing participation in sexual acts every day [in jails]. The question is - when does it cross that line?"
That may sometimes be hard to unravel in cases involving only inmates. But those implicating members of staff, especially when a baby has been born, are less ambiguous - aren't they?
In Monica Washington's case, there was a prosecution - but not for rape. The charge against the officer was "criminal sexual misconduct".
Her cousin Robert Chancey still cannot quite believe it. "He got six months. I don't even understand that. That's like a slap on the wrist!"
So why wasn't the officer charged with rape?
"Because there was no investigation done in the case," believes Monica Washington's lawyer, Charlotte Morrison.
"Ms Washington was never interviewed or questioned by the district attorney's office or the police - she was only questioned by the Alabama Department of Corrections."
The man in charge of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Kim Thomas, says he does not make decisions about charges against employees - that is down to the local district attorney.
"We do the initial investigation, and we turn our entire investigation over to them. Anything we have they are provided with," he explains.
Charlotte Morrison says there have been six convictions for criminal sexual misconduct at Alabama's Tutwiler prison in the last three years.
"We believe it's likely the tip of the iceberg. But in those six cases, only two of the accused actually spent any time in jail. One person spent one day in jail and the other six months."
Now, as a result of EJI's report on Tutwiler, there is an on-going federal Department of Justice investigation into the prison.
Meanwhile, Robert Chancey's mother-in-law, Brenda Singleton, is bringing up his cousin's baby. And when the baby starts asking questions about her parents, she believes honesty will be the best policy.
"We'll just have to tell her the truth - ain't no sense in sugar-coating it, because eventually she'll find out, so I'd rather tell her," says Brenda.
"Either me or her mother will tell her."
That is some years away. On a crackly phone from Tutwiler prison, Monica Washington says she is still dealing with the fall-out from the rape, and is seen by many inside the prison as responsible for what happened to her.
"I'm still getting looks from certain officers like 'I can't believe you did that', or whatever. I have to be on my Ps and Qs, always, when I am dealing with officers and inmates."
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Ok, so Myspace is kind of a big deal. I mean, its the 4th most visited site on the internet, for God's sake. It's got something crazy like an average of 35 page views per unique visitor, not to mention its ability to draws its users back so consistently, day after day. With this in mind, I'd like to discuss two major things on my mind about Myspace.There are 2 major things that I think a little SEO combined with a little Myspace might help us learn.
- Important information regarding the use of search engines as a navigation tool.
- Some important information about Google's algorithm, and its preferences.
As for number one, I think most people would agree that a navigational search is going to produce extremely low clickthroughs. People using Google or Yahoo as a navigational tool are looking to click through to whatever site they seek easily. Most are probably simply using the Google toolbar as opposed to their address bar, or possibly just using Google search because it is their home page. To this end, someone typing in the keyword "Myspace.com" into Google, is expecting to see "Myspace.com" as the first result, which they will then click and be immediately taken to the the page they were seeking. There are, of course, 9 more results they could have chosen to click on.
But what if it were possible to convince some of those navigational searchers to click elsewhere? What if it weren't even that hard to do, and why don't we have more information about these types of searches? In my opinion, this information is extremely valuable. According to Overture, in the case of myspace.com.....are you ready for this.....there are a staggering 15,124,255 searches done per month.
Thats right. 15 MILLION. (That's like, what 3% of America?), and what's more, Google shows a sub result for the search term "Myspace.com." The result is a Myspace User Profile: www.myspace.com/jarvspace. This user's Myspace URL gets between 20-30 million impressions every month. This user has over 40,000 friends.
So, just for the hell of it, let's do some really inaccurate math. Let's say that people searching for this term only click on the sub result once every 2,000 searches. (In my opinion, this is an underestimation). In this case, the sub result would get at least 10,000 searches per month. If the conversion were significantly higher, say, once every 200 visitors, the sub result could expect to get 100,000 visitors per month. This could be possible, considering one has control of not only the title (the title of Myspace profiles is always the Myspace URL), but also the description, which is set in your user profile on Myspace, becoming the meta description tag.
In the unlikely event that you could actually somehow fool one in 50 visitors to visiting your profile, you would get nearly half a million hits a month. Perhaps this is all very unrealistic.....but how can you not marvel at the possibility of it, especially considering how simple it might be to rank in this space, and how much ranking in this place might be able to tell you. Not to mention, at the very least, your brand/site/person would have the opportunity to catch to eye of millions, and this definitely wouldn't hurt. Which brings us to our next point. If a savvy SEO managed to rank their Myspace profile in this space, what exactly might they be able to learn?
SEOs managing to rank their profiles would be able to get a good idea of the clicking behavior of navigational searchers. Is it really true that 99.999% are hellbent on clicking through to the exact page they surfed for, or is it possible to convert a good percentage with a title and description that might pique their interest?
In this instance, with Myspace, you would get a fantastic sample size, and could come to some pretty conclusive results about these users' clicking behavior (at least for the Myspace demographic, which in all fairness seems highly distractable). If found to be significant, perhaps the information gleaned from such an experiment might direct you to more carefully manipulate your own websites ranking in the SERPs for your own domain name.
In the case of seomoz.org, according to overture, there are 930 searches done a month. The results in the SERPs are as follows:
- Read SEOmoz, Rank Better | Internet Marketing & SEO - seomoz.org
- SEOmoz | Google Search Engine Ranking Factors - seomoz.org
- Style Crunch» Blog Archive » SEOMOZ.ORG - www.stylecrunch.com
- Rand Fishkin, CEO SEOmoz.org on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - www.flickr.com (hey RAND, what's up?)
It would be incredibly easy for SEOmoz to rank for all ten terms. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to control which pages ranked where, just by adjusting they keyword "seomoz.org" within their pages. This is a great opportunity for a company to highlight an article or a page, or an idea. By manipulating this, you are essentially telling your users what page is second most important to the home page. An even more interesting scenario might be attempting to rank in your competitors results. Imagine if you could give your customers a reason to choose you over the competition before they even clicked through to your competitor's page.
In the case of SEOmoz, result numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are all for domains other than SEOmoz.org. Perhaps there's an opportunity to be had here?
As for our second point concerning Myspace;
In addition to all the potential traffic that might taken, and the possibilities for exposing your brand, website, or self to millions of people, not to mention the important information you might get about the clicking behavior of navigational surfers, there's also a great chance here to run some experiments on Google's ranking algorithm. In the case of ranking a Myspace profile for the search term "myspace.com," there are essentially three major factors that could be manipulated with a degree of precision. The first, obviously, is backlinks to the profile page itself. The second is the use of the keyword "Myspace.com" on the profile page, and the third is on page optimization. On page optimization within Myspace is severely limited. Essentially, you have little control over site architecture, and must work within the confines of the templating system they have prepared. Each profile should receive the same benefit of the trust of the domain itself, leaving you the ability to control rankings based mostly just on two factors:
- The mention of the domain (both on the page and in the title--It would be interesting to see how strongly the title tag might influence these rankings. I expect this would be a major factor).
- The quality and number of backlinks.
You could, of course, run these experiments on your own domain, but the huge number of pages Google has to choose from in ranking Myspace profile pages, and the similar architecture of those pages, presents an interesting scenario for ranking tests to be run. Not to mention, the payout on these type of tests could be great for your brand or business. So, what do you guys think? Is there fertile ground here for gaining some additional knowledge? How about for brand exposure? Who will be the first one to rank their company for "Myspace.com?"
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Lastly, keep an eye out for part 2 of Myspace Madness, where i'll talk about the MAJOR security flaws STILL affecting Myspace that make stealing your cookies (and profile) as simple as 1-2-3. In other words...watch where you click.
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Malawi: Chinese Firm Contracted to Steer Country's Television Digital Switch
In Blantyre, the Government has contracted a Chinese company, Huawei Technologies is to install and commission Malawi's Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) equipment as the country prepares to switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting by the end of this year. Huawei Technologies was involved with a similar job in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) nation of Namibia.
Malawi is expected to have her first ever DTT signal by November, 2013 but the process has so far been challenged by lack of resources since the state is currently the sole bankroller of the project.
Digital Migration Coordinator in the Ministry of Information, Dennis William Chirwa disclosed to the Malawi News Agency (Mana) that a deal to cement the agreement with the Chinese entity is yet to be sealed which will also determine the actual date the country will have its first ever DTT signal.
Said Chirwa, "Initial negotiations were done on May 11 and we expect to undertake further discussions soon and award the contract to Huawei Technologies."
Among other responsibilities, the Chinese company is expected to supply, install and commission digital migration equipment according to Chirwa.
Meanwhile Malawians will be required to spend a little more to access the digital television signal as they will be required to procure a Set Top Boxes (STB), a gadget that will be turning the DTT signal into analogue so that it suits the majority of television sets which Malawians have that are incompatible to digital systems.
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